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Accidents and natural disasters can happen anytime. If you aren’t prepared, they can end up ruining your property and taking your loved ones’ lives. To ensure protection, take a look at these 8 severe weather conditions and safety tips for natural disasters.

Earthquakes

If you live in an earthquake-prone area, hire an engineer to conduct a seismic evaluation. This way, you can be sure that your property can resist damage. This may cost a little more than you like, but keep in mind that earthquake damage is a whole lot more expensive.

Additionally, furniture, walls, fixtures, and vents should all be properly anchored or braced. If an earthquake hits your building, evacuating all residents and shutting off electricity and gas switches should be a priority.

Wildfires

Wildfires are unpredictable and often destructive. If your building is situated in an area where wildfires are a reality, there are several things you can do to prevent devastating damages.

Using fire resistant materials in the construction or modification of your property is a great way to prevent damage. Another area to assess is landscaping. Make sure that there aren’t any bushes that could lead the fire right to the structure.

Keep on top of all fire prevention systems. Sprinkler systems, fire alarms, and fire extinguishers can not only save lives but belongings and buildings, too. If you have any questions, contact your local fire department.

Floods

Flooding or flash flooding can happen almost anywhere. In fact, each of the 50 states has had one of the two occur.

To protect your property, consider raising wall sockets, switches, and other electrical elements to above-predicted flood levels. Take a look at the grading outside as well. Chances are you may need to have the grading re-sloped to provide you with the most flood defense.

Consider relocating your HVAC system to a higher floor as we

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It’s the new year and it’s time for everyone’s favorite new year resolution- losing weight.

If you are one of those people who want to lose weight this year, there are 5 things I would like to share with you to help you get a good head start and build momentum to achieve your fitness goals.

We all know that weight loss is one part nutrition and one part training. However, in this post, we’re going to focus on the training part.

You see, how you approach your training is crucial to the results you’ll get. The more consistent you are with your training, the better chances you will lose weight. It can help you avoid injury, too.

Stop doing isolated exercises

I know!

The most popular type of training will always be split training. It’s where you only train certain parts of your body, like chest, biceps, triceps, back, and legs.

Instead of committing to that, try to focus on circuit training using compound movements (multiple muscles used at once).

One thing that circuit training with compound movements has done for me is it has transformed my body into a fat-burning furnace even when I’m sleeping or sitting on a sofa.

Who wouldn’t want that?

Circuit training raises your heart rate so much that your body will have a hard time making up for the oxygen deficit. As a result, it will have to compensate by consuming more oxygen after your workout is done. This causes continuous burning of calories or the EPOC effect.

I never really knew what exhausted meant until I started doing circuit training. After each round, I find myself breathless, crunched over, and feeling a little dizzy. That’s a great sign that you had an intense workout.

By the way, if you are working out hard, you won’t be able to do it for long. This is why circuit training only takes about 15 to 25 minutes, including rest periods.

Stop doing the same thing

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